Understanding the Bitcoin Mining Difficulty

Bitcoin mining a block would be relatively difficult, as the SHA-256 hash of the block’s header should be relatively lower than or equivalent to the target for the block to be accepted by the network for Bitcoins to be used for crypto games.

For explanation purposes, the problem could be simplified, as the hash of block should begin with specific number of zeros. It would be pertinent to mention that probability of calculating a hash starting with several zeros would be relatively low. Therefore, several attempts should be made. For generating a new hash for every round, you would be required to increment a nonce.

What is Bitcoin network difficulty metric?

The Bitcoin mining network difficulty has been calculation of how difficult it would be to locate a new block compared to easiest it could ever be. It would be recalculated every 2016 blocks to a value so that the earlier 2016 blocks would be generated in precisely two weeks provided everyone has been mining at the specific difficulty. It would yield one block in every ten minutes on an average.

With more miners joining, the rate of block creation would rise. As the rate of block generation tends to rise, the difficulty would rise in compensatingthe miners that would push the block creation rate back down. Any blocks that have been released by malicious miners would not be meeting the requisite difficulty target. They would simply be rejected by everyone available on the network and would be worthless.

What is block reward?

When a block has been discovered, the discovery would be awarding themselves a specific number of Bitcoins. It would be agreed upon by everyone available in the network. In the present times, this bounty has been 25 Bitcoins. It would be pertinent to mention that the value would be dividing equally for every 210000 blocks. In addition, the miners would be awarded with transaction fees to be paid by the users in Bitcoin Games.